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Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 



[June 1) 



A correspondent suggests the follow- 

 ing means of making rhubarb jam. 

 An excellent jam maybe made with a 

 mixture of two-thirds of red currants 

 to one-third of garden rhubarb. Good 

 jam may also be made with two-thirds 



thigh, and particularly fractures within 

 the capsular ligament ; with critical 

 observations on Sir Astley Cooper's 

 treatise on that subject, and a descrip- 

 tion of a bed for the relief of patients 

 sufferinsr under tliese accidents and 



of red rough gooseberries, not quite other injuries, and diseases which re- 



ripe, and one-third of rhubarb; and 

 raspberries succeed as well as cur- 

 rants. The (lavouris best if not over- 

 done- with sugar; and, if the jam is 

 made with gooseberries, it will be 

 spoiled should tliey hang on the trees 

 until fully ripe. 



quire a state of permanent rest. 2d. 

 Observations on fractures of the Ole- 

 cranon. ,3d. Description of a new 

 apparatus for more eflectually securing 

 tlie upper extremity in cases of com- 

 plicated injury of the shoulder-joint 

 and scapula. 4th. On the re-esta- 



Mr. R. Meikleham, civil-engineer, blishment of a canal in the place of a 



has in the press, a Practical Treatise 

 on the various Methods of Heating 

 Buildings, by steam, hot air, stoves, 

 and open fires, with some introduc- 

 tory observations on the combustion 

 of fuel, on the contrivances for burn- 

 ing smoke, and other subjects con- 

 nected with the economy and distri- 



large portion of the urethra which had 

 been destroyed. 5th. On the mecha- 

 nism of the spine. 



Mr. J. F. Daniell has in the press 

 a volume of Meteorological Essays, 

 embracing, among others, the follow- 

 ing important subjects : — On the con- 

 stitution of the atmosphere, on the 



bution of heat; with numerous expla- radiation of heat in the atmosphere. 



natory engravings. 



A monument to the memory of 

 Burns is now being raised near to his 

 birth-place, on the opposite side of the 

 road to Alloway Kirk, and on one of 

 the " Banks and braes of Doon." The 

 basement is triangular, each side 

 facing a principal division of Ayrshire, 

 supporting a circular peristyle of the 

 Corinthian order, surmounted by a 

 cupola, and all executed with strict 



on meteorological instruments, on the 

 climate of London. 



The Society of Painters in Water- 

 Colours have procured a Gallery for 

 their interesting exhibition, next do( r 

 to the University Club-house, in Pall 

 Mall East. 



The following gentlemen will give 

 Lectures at the Metropolitan Literary 

 Institution, in the course of the present 

 and succeeding months: — Mr. Par- 



regard to the most pure examples of tington on Mechanical Philosophy ; 



ancient art. 



A Familiar Introduction to Crystal- 

 lography, is preparing, in small octavo, 

 including an explanation of the prin- 

 ciple and use of the common and re- 

 flective goniometers ; illustrated by 

 nearly 400 wood-cuts; by H. J. 

 Brooke, f.r.s. f.l.s. &c. 



Dr. G. Smith has in the press a new 

 edition of the Principles of Forensic 

 Medicine, which will contain much 

 additional matter. The volume will 

 embrace every topic on which the me- 

 dical practitioner is liable to be called 



Mr. Wood on Craniology; Mr. Gur- 

 NEY on Chemistry; and Mr. Jennings 

 on Poetry. 



The author of the " Farmer's Roy" 

 is about to re-appear in a small work, 

 entitled Hazelwood Hall, a drama, in 

 three acts, interspersed with songs. 



Mr. T.Taylor, the Platonist, is en- 

 gaged in preparing for the press a 

 mathematical work, entitled the Ele- 

 ments of anew Arithmetical Notation, 

 in some respects analogous to that of 

 decimals ; by which expressions pro- 

 ducing a great variety of infinite series 



to give a professional opinion in aid of may be obtained, which can by no 



judiciary enquiries. 



Dr. Forster is about to publish, 

 Illustrations of the Mode of maintain- 

 ing Health, curing Diseases, and pro- 

 tracting Longevity, by attention to the 

 .state of the Digestive Organs, with po- 



other means be found. The Series 

 discovered by the moderns, for the 

 quadrature of tlie circle and hyper- 

 bola, are shown to be aggregately in- 

 commensurable quantities ; and a cri- 

 terion is given by which the commen- 



pular observations on the influence of surability or incommensurability of 



peculiarities of air, of diet, and of 

 exercise, on the human system. 



Mr. Earle has in the press a work, 

 containing — 1st. Practical remarks on 

 fracture* at the upper part of the 



infinite series may be infallibly and 

 universally ascertained. 



Mr. Prescot, author of the "In- 

 verted Scheme of Copernicus," has iu 

 the press the second book of his System 



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